Love was a country he knew nothing about.
JAMES BALDWINYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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